Hello Big Casting News: Jennifer Lawrence Lands a Role in 'East of Eden'

Your high school homework just got a lot more interesting.

Pretty much everybody gets assigned East of Eden in Lit class—and if you didn't, swing by the school library and borrow a dog-eared copy of the 1952 John Steinbeck classic pronto. The classic book is about a few families in California at the end of World War I, and like real life, there's love and struggle and heartbreak and—this is where Jennifer Lawrence's character comes in—evil.

So the actress will go from playing ultimate heroine Katniss to someone who, in Hunger Games terms, is even worse than President Snow. It's a bit of a departure for a girl who's basically the most likeable person in all of Hollywood—nay, the world—but Jennifer's pretty good at what she does (remember that time she won an Oscar?), so she'll be fine.